⁸ When there was war again, David went out and fought the Philistines and ^[a]defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled from him. ⁹ Now there was ^(A)an evil spirit from the Lord on Saul as he was sitting in his house ^(B)with his spear in his hand, ^(C)and David was playing the harp with his hand. ^10 (D)And Saul tried to ^[b]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.